BIO: GREEN, John A., s/o Lewis & Sarah (Ritchie) Green
Submitted by: phill@redrock.net (Phyllis Hill)
GREEN RITCHIE BANTA
History of Pike & Dubois Counties, Indiana; Chicago
Goodspeed Bros. & Co., Publishers, 1885
Dubois County, Madison Twp, page 740
JOHN A. GREEN, a native of Indiana, was born in Dubois County, January 1,1843,
and is one of eight children born to Lewis and Sarah (Ritchie) Green, who
were natives of Kentucky. Lewis came to this State in his youth and follow-
ed farming as an occupation. In 1832 he married and afterward bought 280
acres of land in Madison Township, Dubois County, where he lived thirty-
two years. He afterward sold out and purchased 280 acres in a different
part of the same township. His death occurred May 11, 1880. The mother is
of Scotch-Irish descent, and a daughter of a Methodist minister. She came
to Indiana from the Blue Grass State, when there were only a few white people
in the county. She is now an agile, bright old lady of seventy-seven years.
John A. was raised and educated in his native county, the first twenty-one
years of his life being passed in aiding his parents on the home farm. Being
a strong Union man, he enlisted in Company M, Tenth Indiana Calvary, February
7, 1864. Shortly after, when out on duty, he was captured at Hollow Tree Gap,
Tenn., and taken to Andersonville, where he was held for four months, when
he was paroled and delivered up at Vicksburg and came home on furlough and
did not enter the field again as hostilities had ceased. September 21, 1865,
he married Elfa Banta who was born October 6, 1847, in Washington County,
Ind. They have five children: Grace, Culvin, Neanian, Lewis and Roscoe.
After his marriage he settled on the old homestead, where he now lives.
He is a well to do farmer and owns 320 acres of land. He is a Republican,
casting his first vote for U.S. Grant. He and wife are members of the
Presbyterian Church.
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